Analysis: Overcrowded prisons lead to violence

Sentencing reform less successful than hoped, state says

2:53 AM,
Aug. 30, 2013

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Ohio's prisons are growing more crowded despite legislative efforts to reduce their populations, according to a Correctional Institution Inspection Committee report released Thursday.

Ohio's prison population increased 11.1 percent during the past 10 years, leading to increased violence, decreased access to programs to rehabilitate prisoners and growing frustration among corrections officers, according to the report.

The state's prisons, already operating at more than 130 percent of capacity, could gain another 3,000 inmates by 2019, according to a presentation Ohio ...